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Few-shot fine-grained recognition (FS-FGR) aims to recognize novel fine-grained categories with the help of limited available samples. Undoubtedly, this task inherits the main challenges from both few-shot learning and fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zican Zha , Hao Tang , Yunlian Sun , Jinhui Tang

Fine-grained image recognition is a challenging computer vision problem, due to the small inter-class variations caused by highly similar subordinate categories, and the large intra-class variations in poses, scales and rotations. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Xiu-Shen Wei , Chen-Wei Xie , Jianxin Wu

Existing fine-grained image retrieval (FGIR) methods learn discriminative embeddings by adopting semantically sparse one-hot labels derived from category names as supervision. While effective on seen classes, such supervision overlooks the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shijie Wang , Xin Yu , Yadan Luo , Zijian Wang , Pengfei Zhang , Zi Huang

The term fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) refers to classification tasks where the classes are very similar and the classification model needs to be able to find subtle differences to make the correct prediction. State-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Harald Hanselmann , Hermann Ney

Existing sketch-analysis work studies sketches depicting static objects or scenes. In this work, we propose a novel cross-modal retrieval problem of fine-grained instance-level sketch-based video retrieval (FG-SBVR), where a sketch sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Peng Xu , Kun Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Zhanyu Ma , Jun Guo , Yi-Zhe Song

Humans are capable of learning a new fine-grained concept with very little supervision, \emph{e.g.}, few exemplary images for a species of bird, yet our best deep learning systems need hundreds or thousands of labeled examples. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Xiu-Shen Wei , Peng Wang , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Jianxin Wu

Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) addresses the problem of retrieving a particular photo in a given query sketch. However, its widespread applicability is limited by the fact that it is difficult to draw a complete sketch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Dawei Dai , Xiaoyu Tang , Shuyin Xia , Yingge Liu , Guoyin Wang , Zizhong Chen

Deep convolutional neural network models pre-trained for the ImageNet classification task have been successfully adopted to tasks in other domains, such as texture description and object proposal generation, but these tasks require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-14 Xiu-Shen Wei , Jian-Hao Luo , Jianxin Wu , Zhi-Hua Zhou

Fine-grained image classification, which aims to distinguish images with subtle distinctions, is a challenging task due to two main issues: lack of sufficient training data for every class and difficulty in learning discriminative features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-05 Aoxue Li , Zhiwu Lu , Liwei Wang , Tao Xiang , Xinqi Li , Ji-Rong Wen

We propose a new method for fine-grained few-shot recognition via deep object parsing. In our framework, an object is made up of K distinct parts and for each part, we learn a dictionary of templates, which is shared across all instances…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ruizhao Zhu , Pengkai Zhu , Samarth Mishra , Venkatesh Saligrama

Fine-grained sketch-based image retrieval (FG-SBIR) addresses the problem of retrieving a particular photo instance given a user's query sketch. Its widespread applicability is however hindered by the fact that drawing a sketch takes time,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Yongxin Yang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

Existing fine-grained image retrieval (FGIR) methods predominantly rely on supervision from predefined categories to learn discriminative representations for retrieving fine-grained objects. However, they inadvertently introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shijie Wang , Jian Shi , Haojie Li

Detection and classification of objects in overhead images are two important and challenging problems in computer vision. Among various research areas in this domain, the task of fine-grained classification of objects in overhead images has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Eran Dahan , Tzvi Diskin , Amit Amram , Amit Moryossef , Omer Koren

Fine-grained image recognition is a longstanding computer vision challenge that focuses on differentiating objects belonging to multiple subordinate categories within the same meta-category. Since images belonging to the same meta-category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Yifan Pu , Yizeng Han , Yulin Wang , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng , Gao Huang

Fine-grained object categorization aims for distinguishing objects of subordinate categories that belong to the same entry-level object category. The task is challenging due to the facts that (1) training images with ground-truth labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Yabin Zhang , Kui Jia , Zhixin Wang

Fine-grained visual categorization (FGVC) is to categorize objects into subordinate classes instead of basic classes. One major challenge in FGVC is the co-occurrence of two issues: 1) many subordinate classes are highly correlated and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Qi Qian , Rong Jin , Shenghuo Zhu , Yuanqing Lin

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on vision-language reasoning tasks. However, their potential for zero-shot fine-grained image classification, a challenging task requiring precise differentiation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Md. Atabuzzaman , Andrew Zhang , Chris Thomas

Fine-grained visual categorization is to recognize hundreds of subcategories belonging to the same basic-level category, which is a highly challenging task due to the quite subtle and local visual distinctions among similar subcategories.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng

Fine-grained image classification is to recognize hundreds of subcategories belonging to the same basic-level category, such as 200 subcategories belonging to the bird, which is highly challenging due to large variance in the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Yuxin Peng , Xiangteng He , Junjie Zhao

In this paper, we categorize fine-grained images without using any object / part annotation neither in the training nor in the testing stage, a step towards making it suitable for deployments. Fine-grained image categorization aims to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Yu Zhang , Xiu-shen Wei , Jianxin Wu , Jianfei Cai , Jiangbo Lu , Viet-Anh Nguyen , Minh N. Do